For those of you who don’t know, Banksy is an English graffiti artist who’s work can be seen all over the world. We’re big fans of graffiti art, and that got us thinking: are there any HT fans that are into graffiti art? If there are, send us some pictures. We’d love to see them.

74 Responses to "25 Coolest Banksy Graffiti"

In case none of you know anything about graffiti, this is not free hand , its mostly stencils… BANKSY is awesome, look at some of Salts, bombing science . com another artist i like alot is Alex Pardee.

He uses a paint roller and stencils mostly, although spray cans are used in graffiti a lot, a lot of us like to use a roller for the primer, and rollers are much easier to use on stencils and larger projects like big walls or sidecars, whereas cans you gotta come back and forth to make sure everythings been covered.

He does a lot of political graffiti as well. He just recently re-released his book of the art he’s done and he provides some insight on how he does these MASSIVE murals. Check out his page – he’s got SO much more on there: http://banksy.co.uk/

I was recently in Berlin and I tell you – they have some amazing stuff there. Between 1990 and 2005 graffiti was completely legal in Berlin as it was considered to be part of the “redecoration process” after the fall of the Berlin wall. This led to some amazing art being created as graffiti was taken out of the hands of hoodrats scrawling their names on a wall at 3 in the morning, into the hands of actual artists with a respect for each other’s work who could spend days, if not weeks making a piece. If you’ve seen all that Banksy has to offer, I’d suggest looking up “xoooox” and “Alias”, both of whom use the stencil art that Banksy has made so famous. Check out “blu” while you’re at it too – doesn’t use stencil art (to my knowledge) but has some fantastic pieces too.

To be more precise Banksy is from Bristol in the UK. In fact the 2nd, 4th and 14th photo are pieces located in Bristol. Here you can see Banksy pieces located in Bristol http://www.bristol-street-art.co.uk. One of the above pieces isn’t actually a Banksy, the 22nd photo (I want change).

You really need to check out douglas panzone.com, he is completely freehand spray paint no stencils. I dig the stencils, hell we’re in charleston sc, its where Shepard Fairey is from. You know the whole Andre Has A posse thing started. Anyway doug is on a different level, selftaught from what I understand. so good the owners of the building hire him out to keep the bullshit tags off the walls, hell he got a goverment grant to pursue his art, not better than, just different.

Banksy is not a graffiti writer. I can tag with paint, ink, scratching windows, or even with my blood.(Buddy did it once) Because someone uses spray paint it doesn’t make it graffiti, get off our culture you hipster yuppies. He has some nice looking stuff, it’s illegal sure, but he doesn’t hold down a city and most importantly, he has no letters. No letters, no graffiti. Nothing you can say to dispute me on this, i know because im a graffiti bomber and i know my history and my culture.

Yeah. How amazing Banksy must be to hold a piece of polyurethane up to a wall and paint over it (ie stenciling). You think Banksy’s good, kid, then you should’ve seen me in grade school. I use to stencil the alphabet like a mofo. Hell, I even did different colors one time! (*sigh* the easily impressed)

Hm where does that idea come from? No letters, no graffiti? Never heard of that before. Stencil graffiti started in the 1980s when throwups and tags were becoming boring. Stencils allowed for a fast way to make something impressive. They’ve become awesome now and Banksy, Dolk and others have taken it to a new level.http://marcozna.wordpress.com/category/stencil-art/

Julius, thats not paint, that’s graffiti, sigh the less intelligent. Banksy did an art gallery in bristol I do believe, it was wicked, I’m sure you can find videos of it on youtube, and he has a lot of better graffiti than the ones you chose.

Oh man s2xt0y you really got him! Can you tell us how capitalism has ruined the world sitting there in your tight jeans, with your earbuds in, leeching wifi in some coffee shop in Seatle? Fuck off you pretentious ass.

He uses stencils, it’s not graffiti. The dude is brilliant but you aren’t! It’s understandable because google and Wikipedia list him as a graffiti artist! Thank you though for the most ironic phrase of the day, *sigh* this guy who posted this fucking fails!!!

is everyone just looking for a scapegoat? I’m not philosopher. And unlike him, who thinks that everyone has the right to free speech and that crap; I believe that most people don’t have the right to speak their mind. color or culture doesn’t make anyone inferior or superior, its personality that dictates rights

“Keep you coins, i want change” is not a Banksy piece. it is by Meek.not Banksy. Meek. that image has been stolen and used for adverts without the artist’s consent, as well as been attributed to banksy throughout the internet. Meek. remember the name. he deserves more respect than whats been shown.

im from new orleans and banksy did some really creative pieces there after katrina. they was actually an article in the newspaper talking about them. unfortunately this anti-graffiti asshole who calls himself the grey ghost painted over some of them with splotches of grey paint. sigh.